Self Portrait by Charles Edward Gill

Self Portrait by Charles Edward Gill

Self Portrait

Charles Edward Gill

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Title

Self Portrait

 
Artist

Charles Edward Gill

  1933 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1953  
Technique
reduction woodcut in two colors 
Image Size
14 3/4 x 8 1/4" irregular image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
A/P (Artist's Proof) 
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, and editioned 
Reference
 
Paper
buff fibrous wove oriental paper 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
23287 
Price
$350.00 
Description

An expressive, self assured self portrait by Charles Gill, done as a reduction woodcut in 1953 when he was 20 years old. Upon being reminded of the existence of this work Gill wrote:

"I must have been in George O'Connell's printmaking class at CCAC, in which we did at least one of each process: relief, intaglio, and planographic. What surprises me in seeing this is that it is a reduction woodcut. That is when the whites have been cut, the block is printed in a light color. (In this case, not a gray ink, but an under-inked black.) After further cutting, the next darker color: full black in this case. I had no idea I knew how to do a reduction block in 1953! It's awfully well registered - it must have earned an 'A'."

Gill used an irregularly shaped plank to carve into as a matrix, the image is wider at the top than the bottom, not a major consideration for a 20 year old in 1953.

 

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